A note on the utility of pocket calendars

[ritaxis]

They only work if you read them as well as write in them.

You should preferably read them before you go to bed at night so you don't wake up at nine thirty (having driven to San Francisco and back the night before, again, this time to deposit son for his stint of grandma-spotting*, and then staying up later than that because the coffee you drank to be alert on the drive home worked way too well) and realize your annual mammorgram was supposed to have happened at nine o'clock. Even if the pocket calendar in question is this really nice, beautiful thing supposedly modelled on the one that Van Gogh and Hemmingway used ("moleskine," but it wasn't really expensive, and it was on sale)


*Moher is doing very well. She no longer needs someone inside the bathroom with her, but she needs to be spotted when she walks, and she needs help with her walking brace for daytime and her hand brace for nighttime. And she needs someone to do her physical therapy, language therapy, and occupational therapy with her. And someone needs to pay attention to my father, who is doing better but is still short of breath all the time.

Did I tell you that when I took my dad home from the hospital last week he had two goals he had to attend to immediately -- the last track for his latest compilation CD, and Moher's disability forms?

Meanwhile, Moher naturally wants to run before she can walk.

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[dd-b.livejournal.com]

And before anybody else makes the suggestion, I should say that in my experience the (much more expensive) PDA and other electronic calendars have exactly this same characteristic. Given that their alarms aren't loud enough to wake me up or even be heard from an adjacent room.